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Trap Media – Far Eastern Workshops

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

The Far East is not just geographically distant, but also culturally exotic which makes for some truly inspiring and engaging workshops. Both China & Indonesia are popular for cultural workshops along with Japan.

Far Eastern Workshops have a range of visual arts, dance, storytelling and creative music workshops that work great for a multicultural day, week or to coincide with your curriculum.

With many exotic cultures and rich and varied histories to explore, from the striking Chinese Ribbon Dance to the bold sound of Gamelan Music. Far Eastern has a lot to offer with varying cultural traditions.

Chinese Ribbon Dance

Popular Workshop Suggestions:

Origami
Chinese Ribbon Dance
Chinese Fan Dance
Calligraphy

Chinese Ribbon Dance Workshops are really popular as they not only look fantastic but are really engaging upbeat and provide children with the opportunity to really experience this unusual culture!

Have you ever considered?

Gamelan Music
Japanese Traditional Dance
Chinese Lion Dance
Chinese Acrobatics

You could have any of the above workshops and with our current offers you could save on them too check out our website for more workshop options and make the most of our current offer.

Mix & Match Any 5 Workshops For £1,500 (Was £1,925)

Examples of Combinations:

African Drumming + Bollywood + Henna + Street Dance + Samba Drumming = 5 For £1500

Anti Bullying + Sex & Relationships + Conflict Resolution + Drugs + Enterprise = 5 For £1500

Mask Making + African Dance + Musical Theatre +Capoeira + Chinese Dance = 5 For £1500

You can book any combination of workshops and spread them out as much as you like, why not use them for a multicultural week?

You can experience all of the above, with Trap Media’s 100% authentic workshops. From Bollywood Dance Workshops and Indian Classical Dance Workshops to Origami Workshops and Chinese Dance Workshops, lovers of Asian arts will be spoilt for choice!

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Chinese Dance Workshops – Chinese New Year

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

One of Trap Media’s Chinese Dance Workshops is the perfect way to celebrate and honour the Chinese New Year. China’s biggest traditional holiday, the Spring Festival takes place over two weeks. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first month of the new lunisolar calendar, this year the 10^th February.

The Chinese Dance Workshops brings to life the timeless majesty of the Chinese dragon, beautiful silk ribbons arcing through the sky, the intricate patterns formed by fluttering fans, or mighty Chinese lions thundering across the stage.

The workshops include:-

Chinese Ribbon Dance Workshop
Chinese Fan Dance Workshops
Chinese Lion Dance Workshop
Chinese Handkerchief Dance

Trap Media have a wealth of experience in providing workshops, for children and adults, throughout the UK. With the cold, snow and rain continuing to persist why not take a look on our Chinese Dance Workshops on our website to find out how you can brighten up your classroom, whilst learning at the same time. Head over to our website to learn more.

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Chinese Dance Workshops – Cultrurally Stimulating

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Chinese Dance Workshops are extremely popular in schools, because they are culturally stimulating, colourful and really engaging. Chinese Dance has a unique style and outlook making it really interesting to take part in.

Props play a huge part in Chinese Dance, use of ribbons, fans, dragons and lions make the workshops visually stunning. Most people use sound to communicate in their everyday life, but a dancer on stage uses his limbs and body to do the same thing. Just like the Chinese language, Chinese dance has its own unique vocabulary, semantics, and syntactic structure that enable a dancer on stage to fully express his thoughts and feelings with ease and grace.

Our Chinese Dance Workshops are a combination of Chinese culture, traditional Chinese dance and folk dancing. Chinese dance workshops begin with a basic warm up, leading to a small routine incorporating Chinese gestures that the participants pick up easily. Our facilitators teach a variety of Chinese dances including Chinese Ribbon Dance, Chinese Fan Dance and Chinese Umbrella Dance.

Chinese Ribbon Dance is one of the most famous traditional Chinese dances. The Chinese ribbon dance features dancers using sharp, rhythmic movements and long colourful ribbons. The silk ribbons are attached to short, varnished sticks, and as the dancer manipulates the silk, they also perform specific steps and leaps. The ribbons and choreography are precisely synchronized so that the ribbons form patterns and designs in the air that are captivating to all who watch a performance. The history of the Chinese Ribbon Dance goes back thousands of years. Chinese Ribbon Dance originated during the “Han Dynasty” and reached its peak in the “Tang dynasty”. The ribbon dance was performed only for the royal people. Today, Chinese Ribbon dance has its popularity among the common

Chinese Fan Dance dates from 2,000 years ago and was developed during the Han dynasty. This extravagance and splendour of the Chinese culture and is mesmerized by spectators all over the world and is hugely popular. The Chinese Fan Dance highlights delicate movements with constantly changing rhythm, which is dynamic and graceful. Chinese Fan Dances are generally divided into folk dances and classical dances. Folk dances include the kung fu fan dance.

Lion Dance is a traditional Chinese dance where 2 performers mimic a lion’s movements inside a lion costume. Lion dance started thousands of years ago in China as a way of people being able to see a lion without it being a real one! The dance has developed through the years, very visually engaging and popular.

With workshops focusing not only on different movements but also incorporating fans, ribbons, lions and colourful costumes, Chinese Dance Workshops are really exciting to not only take part in but to also watch. For more information on our Chinese Dance Workshops please visit our website http://www.trapmedia.com/chinese_dance_workshops.htm.

It is important to note that we offer many types of Chinese Dance and Dance Workshops, to help you with diversity days or multicultural weeks.

To book a Chinese Dance Workshop or for more information on Chinese Dance please call our bookings line FREE today on 0800 689 9909. To visit Trap Media to find out more about all our Asian Arts Workshops .

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Chinese Dance Workshops – History & Beauty

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Chinese Dance Workshops have always been very popular; perhaps this is down to the fact that they are truly unique and really bring a different outlook to dance. With workshops focusing not only on different movements but also incorporating fans, ribbons, lions and colourful costumes, they are really exciting to not only take part in but to also watch. To get you started we wanted to outline two of our Chinese Dance Workshops to give you more history and background. It is important to note that we offer many types of Chinese Dance and Dance Workshops, to help you with diversity days or multicultural weeks.

Chinese Ribbon Dance Workshops

Chinese Ribbon Dance is one of the most renown of all the Chinese dances. With a Chinese Ribbon Dance Workshop participants learn to utilise sharp, rhythmic movements and long colourful ribbons. What makes this dance truly stunning is the ribbons they act as an extension to your body and movement as you manipulate the ribbon it follows your movements at a varied pace.

The history of the Chinese Ribbon Dance dates back thousands of years and originated during the “Han Dynasty” and reached its peak in the “Tang dynasty”.

During a Chinese Ribbon Dance Workshop music is key, any movement twirls and flicks should be in time with the main rhythm of the music. In general, large and flowing movements are ideal with slow music, so the ribbon will “float” with your movements and the music. Sharp and quick movements are better suited to faster paced music and will give a more snappy effect.

Our Chinese Ribbon Dance workshops are always fun for everyone incorporating the history, beauty and elegance Chinese Ribbon Dance. This is truly an experience not to be missed and a wonderful way to learn more about Chinese Culture.

Chinese Fan Dance Workshops

Chinese Fan Dance Workshops are very exciting and engaging experiences which are not only visually stunning but immensely engaging. Chinese Fan Dance dates from 2,000 years ago and was developed during the Han dynasty. The Chinese Fan Dance focuses around delicate dance movements with constantly changing rhythm, which is dynamic, graceful and visually stunning.

Often focused around telling a story, Chinese Fan Dances are normally divided into folk and classical dances. Folk includes the kung fu fan dance, which is based around tai chi kung fu movements. A traditional Chinese Fan dance workshop is based on simple classical Chinese dance movements, which are very soft and flow continuously.

Chinese Fan Dance workshops will offer participants the chance to experience this beautiful and graceful dance.

This is just two examples of Chinese Dance Workshops that we offer all are fully interactive and give you a great taste of Chinese culture. For us full list of Chinese Dance Workshops we offer please have a look at our Chinese Dance page.

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